But this Weibo post immediately caused a stir in He Mu’s fan base. Many people discussed it in He Mu’s forum, and then came to the conclusion that Luo Yu shamelessly stole the role from their gege, and then swarmed to the official Weibo account to question. 

[Isn’t Bai Ying the role of my He Mu gege? How did it become Luo Yu’s? The official account, come out and explain this!]

[He Mu practiced his lines for this role until his voice became hoarse, but why did the role become that low-level Luo Yu’s?]

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[The crew of Counterattack, come out and explain yourself! We won’t watch this crappy drama without He Mu!]

[Right! We won’t watch this crappy drama without He Mu!]

This clamor not only made passers-by unhappy, but also aroused the ire of the male lead Gu Xiaowei’s fans.

Gu Xiaowei’s fans were not like He Mu’s fans who go to various places to boost traffic and rankings for him every day, but they all sincerely acknowledged Gu Xiaowei’s acting skills and character.

In addition, Lin Yue was one of the few directors with a good image and temperament, and he also had many fans.

Thus the three parties started a melee.

[If you don’t want to watch Director Lin’s work, other people will. We believe in Director Lin’s vision.]

[Haha, is He Mu the RMB? Everyone must love him?]

[Gu Xiaowei is enough, who needs He Mu!]

[Gu Xiaowei is an actor! Director Lin also wants actors! Why did He Mu lose the audition? It’s because he’s not up to the standard of an actor!]

After returning from the audition, He Mu was in a very low mood and stayed motionless in his room, which made everyone watching feel extremely distressed.

Even Director Ou of Dijun Media personally called to comfort him and promised to give him a TV drama with a male leading role, but it still couldn’t make him happy.

In line with the principle of deal or no deal the friendship still remains, Dijun Media could not suppress Lin Yue like they suppressed Luo Yu. In addition, “Counterattack” was a customized drama for C Channel. If there was any unpleasantness, it might offend C Channel, so this time Dijun’s public relations department also took no action.

However, He Mu’s fan base had developed the habit of quarreling and quibbling. When the fans first questioned the crew of “Counterattack”, the agent gloated about their misfortune. He came to He Mu’s room with an iPad and read out the words one by one to He Mu. 

Basically, they were accusing Luo Yu of snatching the role, a cuckoo occupying the magpie’s nest, as expected of He Mu’s dupe, he was indeed high quality and low priced.

But gradually the trend changed, and these fans began to attack Lin Yue’s casting, saying that he was blind, that he must have received the benefits of Luo Yu, and that he was biased against top stars. They also accused Gu Xiaowei, saying that He Mu had praised Gu Xiaowei’s acting skills in public so many times, and said that it was because of He Mu that they paid attention to Gu Xiaowei, but this time Gu Xiaowei did not speak for He Mu which was simply ungratefulness and the like.

Seeing this, He Mu sat up suddenly and scrolled through one by one in surprise.

“They… do they want me dead? They actually attacked the director! They even accused Brother Gu! Are they saying that Brother Gu got famous from rubbing off my traffic?”

He Mu never expected that his fans, who had always been strong on the frontlines, would now become a knife stabbing his lungs.

And in less than an hour, Gu Xiaowei’s fans were completely angered. Not only that, even passers-by couldn’t resist speaking up to defend Lin Yue and Gu Xiaowei.

Many netizens who have been silent and dislike He Mu because of his crazy fan base were filled with indignation.

[Gu Xiaowei is a professional actor! He’s different from someone holding the title of “national school idol” and pinching this and tearing that up all day long! Gu Xiaowei only focuses on his own scripts!]

[What the hell? I’ve seen this He Mu seven or eight times in a month’s hot search headlines. I was already physiologically sick, but now he’s taking advantage of Gu Xiaowei? Is this a capital distortion or too much self-confidence?]

[Lin Yue’s movies and TV dramas have exported many outstanding actors to the film and television industry, and some have been nominated for Oscars! What is He Mu? After starring in an idol drama, he actually began to question Director Lin’s choice?]

[I thought it was because He Mu was trying to rub off on Gu Xiaowei’s professional actor buff, but I didn’t expect that it was He Mu’s fans who were saying that Gu Xiaowei was rubbing off on his traffic? This is really hilarious!]

……

These comments made He Mu scared. He quickly pulled his agent over and said, “Go! Go tell those head fans and the group leaders of the fan group! Tell them to stop attacking Brother Gu and Director Lin immediately!”

The agent also saw that things were moving in a wrong direction and contacted them one by one, but it was still a step too late. #Counterattackcomeout andexplainyourself# had already been trending on Weibo, closely followed by a certain male star’s hidden marriage, and a certain female star and her male friend on vacation together. It was completely irrepressible.

The agent contacted the platform urgently and asked to take down the hot search immediately.

At this time, Luo Yu, in order to celebrate taking a new step after his rebirth, went out to buy a bowl of beef noodle and a bottle of iced Coke. He sat in front of the sofa, eating meat and drinking Coke while watching He Mu’s fans commit suicide.

“After raising gu for so long, the poison will eventually start to be released.” Luo Yu smiled. (TN: venomous insect)

Before, Luo Yu had to bear the pressure of being attacked by He Mu’s fans alone, but this time it was different.

“Director Lin, please excuse me this time.”

At this time, Lin Yue was discussing the script with Hua Xingyun, when suddenly Li Qian, the public relations director of the crew, rushed over.

“Look, look… He Mu’s wave will not stop until it destroys your dragon king temple!” Li Qian threw the phone in front of Lin Yue and Hua Xingyun, indicating to them to take a look at the top hot search headline.

“Wow, the attention of our crew is so high. He Mu’s traffic is really high!” Lin Yue raised his glasses and sighed.

“Aren’t you… angry?” Li Qian asked weirdly.

“I feel that Mr. Li is very calm, so why should I be angry?” Lin Yue said lightly.

Li Qian pulled up a chair and sat down, “I have just edited the video of He Mu and Luo Yu’s audition. Even the editor said that you were right to choose Luo Yu. Even a blind person can see that his acting skills are better than those of He Mu quite a bit. And this Luo Yu is not bad looking either, right up there with Gu Xiaowei… I have seen so much dirty water about him before, saying that he copied He Mu’s school idol image and snatched He Mu’s roles, being called ‘He Mu’s dupe’, I now wonder if this is because He Mu is using his fans’ momentum to eliminate opponents.”

“You are in public relations, don’t you understand the trick here?” Hua Xingyun smiled pointedly.

Li Qian smiled, “The way I see it, Luo Yu and He Mu have the same market designation. For the brokerage companies, they are both competing products. When competing products of the same type compete, the wealthy Dijun Media will of course win in a crushing manner.”

“Why don’t Mr. Li go find out if there are any other ‘dupes’ of He Mu?” Lin Yue said thoughtfully.

“Huh? Only Luo Yu has been labeled as ‘He Mu’s dupe, right.”

“That’s a pity. If all of He Mu’s dupes are as good-looking as Luo Yu, with good acting skills and low pay, then we will be able to make a fortune.” Lin Yue said seriously.

After two seconds of silence, both Li Qian and Hua Xingyun burst into laughter.

Just as the platform had just posted the trending search of #Counterattackcomeoutandexplainyourself#, another trending search was upvoted #boycottCounterattack#.

He Mu was about to have a heart attack after seeing it, they even dared to boycott “Counterattack”? That would be the highlight drama of C-Channel in the second half of the year! Just because of him, a traffic idol, it was boycotted, were these fans not afraid of him being banned from the industry directly?

Director Ou called him with a serious tone, “He Mu, did I tell you not to target “Counterattack” and Director Lin? Why didn’t you listen and still buy so many hot searches?”

“Chairman Ou! I really didn’t buy the hot search, it was the fans who did it on their own initiative! Please believe me!”

“I hope what you said is true. I don’t like disobedient people.”

After saying that, the call was hung up.

This time, the public relations department of Dijun Media personally took action and took down the trending search term #boycottCounterattack#. However, when they were working on an announcement to apologize to the crew of “Counterattack” and Director Lin, “Counterattack”‘s official Weibo uploaded a new post with the sentence “for the judgment of the general audience”, followed by two videos, which were audition clips of He Mu and Luo Yu.

Allowing the disclosure of audition videos was a consent form signed by everyone who came to audition. This was also the preparation made in advance by Li Qian, the public relations director of the production team, who was worried about such casting turmoil. He originally thought that no one would question Lin Yue’s choice, but he never expected that there would be such a brave warrior as He Mu.

“Maybe it’s because the ignorant are fearless.” Li Qian shook his head.

He Mu’s fans rushed to He Mu’s video instantly, leaving comments like “My gege is indeed the most handsome, the crew is stupid”, “He Mu has the strongest aura, he is just like Bai Ying”, “Every strand of hair from my gege is acting skills.” Then they flooded under Luo Yu’s video to ridicule him, telling him to get out of the crew, get out of the entertainment industry, and so on.

Not long after, Gu Xiaowei forwarded the official page of the TV drama with a sentence: Senior Brother, long time no see.

Fans of Gu Xiaowei were curious about who the senior brother Gu Xiaowei was talking about when they saw it, and they found out after clicking on the video.

[Brother Gu’s senior brother refers to Luo Yu, right? He is so attractive!]

[Luo Yu’s acting skills are obviously not on the same level as He Mu’s, right? Why is he always said to be copying He Mu’s image? His style is completely different from He Mu!]

[Brother Gu’s senior brother is so hot! It took just thirty seconds for my soul to be sucked away!]

[Oh my God, I don’t want to close Luo Yu’s video once I open it! Don’t you think that he is gentle, fierce and sexy at the same time?]

[Clearly he is a villain, but I can’t help but love him!]

Although Gu Xiaowei’s fans were not good at fighting in fanwars, they also went to the official page to speak justice for Luo Yu.

Soon, ordinary netizens also finished watching the two auditions, and they felt tired of seeing He Mu fans talking nonsense.

[Let me just say that Director Lin’s vision is not a problem! Luo Yu’s acting skills clearly surpassed He Mu’s! Fans bragging about their idol is so embarrassing!]

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[Every strand of He Mu’s hair is acting skills? Do you think I’m blind? Clearly the acting skills of Luo Yu’s strand of hair in the last scene is better!]

[I can feel the suppressed emotions and madness deep in Bai Ying’s heart from Luo Yu’s eyes! Thumbs up!]

[Luo Yu is He Mu’s dupe? That’s actually quite accurate. After all, he looks better than He Mu, has better acting skills than He Mu, and has a lower salary than He Mu. Isn’t that exactly like a dupe?]

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